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I am a retired teacher with thirty-six years of service. I'm also a rock climber and mountaineer. I've climbed extensively in Yosemite and the Sierras, but my home crags are in Pinnacles National Park. My writing about climbing has been published in "Ascent" and other mountaineering publications.

I'm an experienced writer. My "Dogwood Dream" won the 2011 New Millennium short fiction competition and two of my stories have been published by the Kids Book Review. My Civil War novel "Dawn Drums" was awarded First Place in the Arizona Authors Association's 2014 literary contest. Judges of the 2014 New Mexico Book Awards gave it the Tony Hillerman Award for best fiction. ...more

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	Flower Tumbles by Robert M. Walton (Goodreads Author), Art Salvagno (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	New Legends: Caster, Castle, Creature by Robert M. Walton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Aaron Hodges (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Allison Wade (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I thank Editor Sand Pilarsky for including “Shared Taxi” in this week’s edition of Piker Press. It’s very brief but one of my personal favorites. I had fun thinking and writing about Istanbul and Paris in the same story! https://www.pikerpress.com/article/11812/shared-taxi/

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The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854)

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Third Flatiron Best of 2019, Volume 9, #27, Spring 2020 (Third Flatiron Anthologies, #27)

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